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Three professional soccer players were on the fields in Bluffton on Tuesday as part of a week-long experience for children in the area.

About 50 summer campers at the Lower Coastal Soccer Academy have been training with three players from the Charleston Battery professional soccer team.

"They do their own camps in Charleston," said Trevor Garbett, director of the LCSA. "It's hard to get kids to go to a daily camp from here to Charleston, so Coach Mike Anhaeuser from the Charleston Battery, we sat down and he's given me three of thecurrent roster players. These guys, they're playing Saturday."

This is the first year for the summer camp at the academy, which offers year-round training for children ages 6 to 18.

"It's a great experience for these kids to be out here with athletes that are actually competing at a professional level right now," Garbett said.

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